Picture mount



A. A. CHILCOTE, W. A.- HATCH AND W. E. HAYS.

PICTURE MOUNT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.24. I921,

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APPLICATION FILED .IAN.Z4, 1921. 1,404,579, Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

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AUGUST A. GHILCOTE, WILLIAM A. HATCH, AND WALTER E. HAYS, OF CLEVELAND,

OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE CHILCOTE G0., OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PICTURE MOUNT.

Application filed January 24, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUGUST A. CHIL- oo'rn, IVTLLIAM A. HATCH, and \VALTER E. HAYs, all citizens of the United States of America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahogaand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture Mounts, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which we have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

Our invention relates to a picture mount and more particularly to a cardboard folder adapted to frame a photograph as usually provided with the name and address of the photographer.

e are pioneers in the manufacture of articles of this character and accordingly believe we are familiar at least with all prior marketed constructions. Hei'etofore to pro duce variousstyles of cardboard picture mounts a large amount of material in the shape of comparatively narrow strips has been regarded as scrap material and become wasted s far as pertained to use in our business. The object of our invention is to enable the use of long and comparatively narrow strips for a new type of picture mount in the smaller sizes.

The whole is composed of a single piece of material so scored or creased as to allow one portion to serve an alternative function, either as a cover for the picture when the entire piece is folded fiat or as a base of an easel formation when intermediate sections are held in an elevated position thereon in a manner to be hereinafter disclosed. Our invention enables the folder or mount to be delivered flat and to be subsequently utilized as an easel so as more effectively to display the picture. The name and address of the photographer is printed or embossed in a place whereby it may be read whether the mount is folded 01' set up as an easel. This is a very desirable feature for advertising.

i-ldverting to the drawings:

Figure I is a front elevation of a blank embodying our invention.

Figure II is a similar view of the obverse side.

Figure III is a perspective View of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

Serial No. 439,504.

creased blank partly folded and with a picture mounted with a part thereof.

Figure IV is a perspective view of our invention folded to assume its easel form.

Figure V is a perspective view of our picture mount folded flat in pocket form or as it would be delivered.

An elongated card board blank orstrip is scored or creased crosswise along two lines 1 and 2 which are equally spaced from and extend parallelly to opposite ends of the blank. Preferably though not necessarily midway between the strip is again scored along the line 8 which is parallel to the creases 1 and 2. Thus the strip is divided into four sections, a picture mountingsection 4. a cover section 5 and two intermediate sections 6 and 7. The crease 3 is the inverse of the crease 1, the latter enabling the picture mounting section 4 to be turned around against the back of the strip, that is to say, that side of the strip appearing to view in Figure II. The crease 2 enables folding of the cover section 5 in either direction. Preferably also the intermediate sections 6 and 7 are together of the same size as the end sections 4 and 5 so that the picture mounting end 4: may be folded back upon the sections 6 and 7 when flattened and the cover 5 swung around to cover the front of the section 41-. The latter is fashioned for a certain distance across each of its four corners with diagonal slits 10 and the material is so embossed that four triangular sections are raised above the front of the section 4; to form corner pockets 11 in a manner old and well known to the art. At the point indicated the cover section 5 is fashioned with a curved slit 12 to provide a tongue 13 adapted to be flexed relative to the plane of the section 5 and caused to be raised therefrom for a purpose to be explained. Preferably that end of the bark of the section f which is nearest the section 6 is pasted or otherwise caused to :1d here thereto when the blank is folded as appears in Figure III. The four corners of a photograph 'l l cut to proper size are readily insertable through the slits 10 as will now be understood.

- hen the picture mount is delivered or stocked the back ofthe section 7 is brought against the back of the free or top end of the section 4 and then the cover 5 fiapped overthe'front thereof. Whenit is desired to employ the mount in its easel position both .16, coverv 5 and section 7 are folded backwardly and downwardly to such apositially 45 degrees to simulate an easel.

"lVe claim g 1. A picture mount composed of a single sheet of strip material creased, folded and doubled back upon itself, one end of said strip being fastened with an integral out out tongue adapted to assume an upstanding position when said end is flatly resting, one of said folds being adapted to be inserted behind said tongue whereby a two ply easel is produced.

2. A picture mount composed of single sheet of strip material so creased that edges of each of two inclined sections form a complete triangle in conjunction with an edge of a base section, another picture supporting section forming an integral continuationof andbeing folded back against one of said inclined sections, and upstanding means associated with said base sections for engaging the picture section and for maintaining the established easel position.

3. A picture mount composed of a single sheet of strip material so creased thatedges of two sections are adapted to form a stable support in conjunction with an edge of a third section when the latter is disposed as a flat base, another picture supporting section being folded back upon one of said first mentioned sections, an upwardly directed extension of said base forming section adapted to engage the front one of said sections which are folded against each other to prevent collapse of the whole.

4-.v 'As a new article of manufacture a strip or fibre board fashioned with a plurality of creases extending parallelly across said strip and the middle one ei juispaced from the other two, one end being adapted to mount a picture, the otherend being adapted alternatively to serve as a cover for said picture when bent in one direction along its line of junction with said strip or as the base of an easel when bent in the opposite direction along its line of junction, and a struck-out tongue some distance from the extremity of said'last mentioned end adapted when such end serves as a base to engage the lower front edge of said picture supporting end during the easel arrangement.

5. As a new article of manufacture a strip of fibre board fashioned with a pluralty of creases extending parallelly across said strip the middle. one 'equispaced from the other two and the latter equidistant from the ends of said strip respectively, one end being adapted to mount a picture, the other end being adapted alternatively to serve as a cover for said picture when bent in one di-' rection along its line of junction with said strip or as the base of an easel when bent in the opposite direction along its line of end beingpurposed to mount a picture and adapted in oneposition to be folded against one side of the middle section, the other' end being adapted to be folded in either direction so as in one position to serve as a cover for the picture carrying end, the middle. section being additionally creased whereby an easel may be set up against which the picture end leans and which in turn rests upon the other end when the latter is swung around in theopposite direction to assume its alternative functional position.

7. An article of the character described comprising a strip of fibre board creased to'divide it into three equal sections, one end being purposed to mounta picture and adapted in one positionto be folded against one side of the middle section, the other end being adapted to be folded in either direction so as in one position to serve as a cover for the picture carrying end, the middle section being additionally creased across its line whereby an easel may be set up against which the picture endjleans and which in turn rests upon the other end when the latter is swung around in the opposite direction to assume its alternative functional position, and means for securing the back of said picture end to on half of said middle section. j

8. An article of the character described comprising a strip of fibre board parallelly creased to divide it into three sections,

[one end being vpurposed to mount a picture and adapted in one position to be folded against the middle section, the other end being adapted to be folded in either direction so as in its compact'position to serve as a cover for the picture carrying end, the 7 9. As a new article of manufacture a strip of fibre board fashioned with a plurality of creases extending parallelly across said strip, one end being adapted to mount a picture, the other end being adapted alternatively to serve as a cover for said picture when bent in one direction along its line of junction with said strip or as the base of an easel when bent in the opposite direction along its line of junction, said last mentioned end being provided with a tongue adapted to engage th lower edge of said picture supporting end during the easel arrangement.

10. An article of the character de cribed comprising a strip of fibre board creased to divide it into three equal sections, one end being purposed to mount a picture and adapted in one position to be folded against one side of the middle section, the other end being adapted to be folded in either direction so as in on position to serve as a cover for the picture carrying end, the mid dle section being additionally creased across its middle line and inversely to that of the end forming creases when occupying their stated positions whereby an easel may be set up against which the picture end leans and which in turn rests upon the other end when the latter is swung around in the opposite direction to assume its alternative functional position, means for securing the back of said picture end to one half of said middle section, and means associated with said end of alternative function and adapt ed to hold said picture carrying end in an upstanding position.

Signed by us, this 21st day of December,

A. A. CHILCOTE. WVILLIAM A. HATCH. WALTER E. HAYS. 

